The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-08-25
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
The st. Paul Y. NJ. G. A., has a Chinese
sabbath school, with an attendance OF IS to
30 cinnamon.
The Minnesota Natural Gas and Fuel
Company Of Albert Lea, has incor-
porated with 81 500, 900 Capital.
Il. G. Mitchell says the reported sale and
reorganization Of the Duluth Tribune, is in,
correct, and has not transpired.
Charles Syverson, living q. forest Mills,
has been arrested eGa l.'acs! under bonds
for overworking art; Otherwise abusing his
children.
A tax OF $4,000 has been levied on Red
Wing property for city purposes the coming
year. This amount is less than has been
levied for several years.
A macLinist named Isaacs, riding in a
handsom cab, at st. Paul, Sund ay after
noon. suddenly jumped out, fell under the
wheels and was killed. He was intoxicated
A teachers institute for Goodhue county
will open at Zumbrota Oct. II. Supt.
Engstrom will have charge. The instructors
will be J. I. McCleary and y. Z. Sprague.
Mrs. Gulic Halverson, living about eight
miles from Houston, committed suicide
Aug. Is by taking strychIine, Domestic
trouble was the cause. She was s. years
old.
The county Of lsanti recently voted to
issue Londs to build county buildings, and
has borrowed 5000 from the state school
fund giving as security four bonds, due in
ISM and
A twelve-year, old son of Stephen Shong
Of the town of Orange, while out hunting
Sunday was kicked on the forehead by an
overloaded gun and his skull crushed He
lies in very critical condition.
Mrs. O. +. Perkins, wife Of Hon. o. F.
Perkins OF Nortbfield, fell from the railroad
bridge at Spring creek Sunday morning and
was killed. Deceased was fifty-two years
of age, and had been O resident OF North
field for several years.
r. NJ. Mckenzie, of Anoka received the
$50 prize for the third best essay upon the
protective tariff, offered by the American
Protective Tariff League. There were IS
competitors from IS states and 35 colleges.
Mckenzie is a graduate OF the Minnesota
State University, Class SO.
A row occurred at a dance in Sherburn
between a couple Of railroad hands.
Daniel Pieffer, in endeavoring to separate
the combatants, was turned upon by one
in the arm, one of the wounds being quite
serious. Murray was locked up for trial.
A report has reached st. Paul, that
Walter t. Smith, the paying teller OF the
End National Bank Of that city, who sudden
" left Nov. 23, 1885, with <f,5oO belonging
to the bank, is at Fort Worth, Texas, where
he was discovered as common vagrant.
Steps have been taken to bring Smith to st.
Paul.
Alfred Nelson, aged 10 years, living at
Cannon Falls, was severely injured by an
explosion caused by the boy dropping a
lighted match into the bung hole OF an
empty whisky BARREL The fragments Of
force that portion of the roof Of the build
ing was torn away.
The confirmation of the rumors regard
ing the sale OF seven-twentieth interest in
the st. Louis River Improvement com.
pany's water power by Jay Cooke and
Others for S7Ou, ,OuO cash has created interest
in that section. Private dispatches state
that the work of constructing several dams
near Fond du Lac will be let to contractors
as soon as possible.
Mayor Smith OF St Paul has received a
letter from George X. Stillman, 439 Main
street, Cincinnati, inquiring as to the
whereabouts of Jean Baptiste and Ulrich
Morin, father and son of o family Of Cana
dians who came to st. Paul 25 years ago.
IL living, the father is now 20 years of age.
A large property is to be divided among
them il found.
Patrick Derkin, well-todo farmer
residing near Cascade, Dubuque
County left a neighbor's house one
stormy night last February fol
home. That was the last seen OF him. Search
proved unavailing. Within day or two
his headless and dismembered body was
found ut the edge Of q creek 200 yards from
his house. A coroner's jury returned q yer.
dict Of accidental drowning.
At Chatfield, while Horace Allen was en-.
deavoring to stop runaway team, he was
knocked down and run over, receiving q
broken arm, three broken ribs and dis
located shoulder. His head was also
frightfully bruised, it having been jammed
siderable strength to extricate it. In this
mangled condition he was still able to wall
to his house. The doctors claim his re-
covery doubtful
Two men have been arrested at Northern
Pacific junction for highway robbery. The
crime was committed in u box car near
| Barnunl. The criminals are two young
| brakemen discharged and going to st. Paul
| Their victim was pcddler, alone with them
| in the car, whom they seized and cutting his
throat, as they supposed, threw him out o
the car while running at good speed
Strange to say, the injuries OF the peddlel
were not fatal, and the spoils Of the robbers
were only Sl2
| The interest in the Freeborn county
natural gas development continues. Hon
j. II. Parker of Albert Lea il Of the opinion
that the pressure is great enough to force
| the gas almost any distance, st. Paul anC
Minneapolis being easily accessible
Strangers are arriving upon the ground ane
many letters OF inquiry are daily arriving
there with reference to the wonderful find
The drillers are ut work sinking new well
all the time and another of those interested
have just left with additional machinery
Washington Special There are l,l5
postofices in Minnesota, and 627 Of then
have been filled with Democrats under tn
present administration. There are S33 ye
held by Republicans. In Wisconsin Their
are 1910 postofiices, and 753 Of them hav